One great thing I love about my iPhone is that it’s a place where old games can be reborn. There are plenty of classic games that have been rereleased for iOS. The biggest obstacle that these games face is the absence of a physical controller. For some games this works fine (I touched on a couple of these during my […]
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There was a time when all of the apps on my phone were free apps. This actually lasted years. I think the only game I bought when I had my iPhone 3G was the Simpsons arcade game. There are a lot of free games available for the iPhone, and I took full advantage of them. Today for a special edition […]
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I remember when I was younger I would go to friends’ houses and play NBA Jam on the Sega Genesis. Back then I didn’t know anything about basketball, but I still loved playing the game. Now, over 15 years later not much has changed. I still don’t care about basketball and I still have a fondness for NBA Jam. Last […]
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Any gamer in their mid twenties or older remembers a time when much of your gaming was done in poorly lit rooms full of giant boxes that you would pump quarters into for a few moments of gaming excellence at a time. These typically female free, and sometimes hygiene free zones may not have always been the nicest looking, but […]
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Unpleasant Horse is Pop Cap’s first release under it’s new 4th and Battery Label. According to the description in the App Store, the game is a result of a “game jam” where employees drew a game description from a hat and then had 24 hours to make a game. The name that was randomly drawn was “unpleasant horse racing through […]
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Mos Speedrun is an iOS game where you play as a ladybug racing against time while avoiding an odd variety of enemies including aliens and zombies. It’s a side-scroller where beating a round involves more than just reaching the end of the level. Each round has four badges you need to earn. A badge for making it the end of […]
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Just a look at a couple of screen shots of WWE Superstar Slingshot and It’s easy to describe the game – it’s Angry Birds with wrestlers. This is actually a pretty accurate description. With that being said, this game faces a couple of series challenges. First, it’s a WWE game, but it’s not a fighting game so it may be […]
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One of my favorite PC games ever is Command and Conquer: Red Alert. It was a game I spent countless hours playing after school for a couple years straight. For those of you unfamiliar with it, Red Alert is a real time strategy war game. You build up your base, build some tanks, train some soldiers, and go after the […]
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Video games have come a long way in the last thirty years. If you would have told someone three decades ago that in 2011 a popular gaming device would be a touch screen cell phone they wouldn’t have believed you. Actually they wouldn’t have even comprehended what you were trying to tell them. Despite these advances in technology many of […]
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Back to the Future: The Game is a point and click game (maybe “look and tap” would be a more appropriate term for the iPad) where you control Marty McFly in his newest time traveling adventure. The controls for the game are fairly easy. If at any point you hold your finger on part of the screen, it becomes a […]
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